Award Recipient

2016

Cecelia Connelly Memorial Graduate Scholarship in Underwater Archaeology, sponsored by the Connelly Family in memory of their mother, WDHOF member Cecelia Connelly

Natasha Bani-Sadr

Natasha Bani-Sadr is a Master’s student of the Maritime Archaeology Programme at the University of Southern Denmark, uniting her passions for diving and history. She has been diving since 2012 and worked on archaeological sites across Canada, Belize, Spain, and Germany but her graduate work brings her to the North Sea coast of Denmark, where her thesis centers on locating the Viking Age harbor in one of the country’s oldest towns. Upon graduation Natasha hopes to contribute to the protection of the world’s underwater cultural heritage as a diving archaeologist.

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